It's become clear to many that Red Hat's recent missteps with CentOS and the availability of RHEL source code indicate that it's fallen from its respected place as "the open organization." SUSE seems to be poised to benefit from Red Hat's errors. We connect the dots.
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Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux Foundation, big tech, and many of the project's long-time contributors.
Redis is only the last in a line of companies that have lately dropped open-source licenses in favor of proprietary open-source lookalike licenses. In this case, a fork has already happened that just might end up being real competition for Redis.
A few weeks ago the Kubernetes-helper SaaS platform Acorn Runtime was happily in beta, and was set to go GA in the near future. Now, the platform is in mothballs and Acorn Labs is betting its future on GPTScript, an open-source scripting language for generative AI.
DoorDash thinks we're supposed to be impressed that it's working to keep its drivers safe. We ask, isn't that just what they should be expected to do? We have a suggestion about something they should do if they really want to impress us with their efforts.
During the last week or so, financially strapped MariaDB has announced that it's laying off 28% of its workforce and that it's shutting down two popular projects that are used by enterprise customers.
Three-and-a-half years after handing over the reins at Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst has the job he likes best again, although only temporarily. It’s been no…
This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.
Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can't swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country's recently passed news link law.
Be nice to your SysAdmin, SEC makes rules for reporting cyber attacks, and Musk purloins a user's $40,000 Twitter X handle.
As Red Hat's reputation as an example to the corporate world on how to do open-source right fades, will SUSE's new CEO, Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, pick up the mantle?